Private Tour

A guide’s honest comparison of Ostia Antica and Pompeii — the working imperial port versus the frozen provincial town. How to choose, how to combine, how to spend the day.

A privately arranged day at the Garden of Ninfa — 105 hectares of English Romantic planting through the ruins of a medieval city, eighty kilometres south of Rome.

A privately guided morning in Rome’s Jewish Ghetto — two thousand years of Roman-Jewish history, the Great Synagogue, and a lunch of carciofi alla giudia at a kosher trattoria.

A privately curated Caravaggio walking tour of three Roman churches — five masterpieces from the Contarelli, Cerasi and Pilgrims chapels, with an art historian’s reading of light and incised lines.

A private truffle hunt with a Lagotto dog in the Umbrian woods above Norcia — followed by lunch at the hunter’s table. The least industrial of Italy’s rural luxuries.

A privately curated summer 2026 programme of Roman evenings — Forum after-hours, Colosseum underground at night, Castel Sant’Angelo terrace, and dinner at 22:00.

A privately arranged Brunello day from Rome — three hours north, a single family estate in Montalcino, a vertical tasting of four to six vintages, and lunch at the family’s own oak table.

A privately guided Tivoli day from Rome: three hours at Hadrian’s Villa, lunch in a hilltop osteria, and an afternoon among the five hundred and one fountains of Villa d’Este.

A private morning on the Aventine — Piranesi’s keyhole, the Orange Garden’s belvedere, and Santa Sabina’s fifth-century silence. The quietest of Rome’s seven hills, properly seen.